Fishing Reports

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We started out fishing for Musky on a weekend in February. However, it wasn’t my day for musky… We were coming up on the rocky section of the river which is better for smallmouth. So we pulled off to a river campsite, made a campfire, and switched over our gear. Back on the water, two…

Looked at the weather and couldn’t resist dropping the boat in on a local rocky-river flow. This winter has been super mild except for one cold snowy week. Water temps were pushing lower 50’s and the bass had turned on pre-spawn feeding at this point! It was unreal to see mid-winter bass rocket out of…

We took the GoPro out for spin… only our second day using it, and first day out on the water with it. Despite the chaos that ensures when trying to land a big musky from a canoe on a moving river, we were able to get some footage of the fight. Check it out!

Made the second attempt at landing a Musky on the French Broad River. This time I was ready, with a better setup of gear and tackle. Not sure if I have taken 10,000 casts yet, but on the 100th cast today I got to watch my *personal best* Musky come out from under a lay…

I’ve spent a few weekends this Winter in the West Jefferson area getting ready for deer hunting and doing some trout fishing. I’ve fished the north and south forks of the New and Big Helton creek (which is delayed harvest catch and release single hook artificial only waters). Missed the biggest Brown Trout of my…